WorklogisticsDesign & Analytics2014-03-10T22:07:41Zhttp://worklogistics.com/feed/atom/WordPressadminhttp://worklogistics.com/?p=15282014-03-10T18:43:20Z2014-03-10T18:43:20ZThe Lunchmaster project began with an extremely challenging timeline, we took over product design and project management from an earlier team in spring 2013. Our marching orders were to have the site launched in time for the fall school year. On April 5th, the first code was committed and on August 20th, we launched the site to to 10,000 users – just 4 1/2 months later.

Lunchmaster is challenging for other reasons as well, the project is exceptionally complex, including customer ordering, along with a diverse array of reports and functionality necessary for running Lunchmaster’s entire business.

Shown below is one page out of a 65-page design document, this page shows both UX designs along with developer instructions and notes on the database schema. Extremely comprehensive documentation means we were able to execute this very difficult project in record time.

]]>0adminhttp://worklogistics.com/?p=14492014-03-10T18:59:10Z2013-02-20T23:25:49ZWorklogistics principle, Stephan Orme was the product designer and architect for the first generation of Google’s open-source Governance, Risk and Compliance platform.

The Google GRC project is an ambitious project designed to manage all of Google’s global regulatory compliance and risk assessment processes.

]]>183adminhttp://worklogistics.com/?p=14662014-03-10T18:52:14Z2012-11-26T23:18:17ZWe are delighted that our ‘Designing for Virality‘ article has been featured in online magazine, Curaqion.

Curaqion is dedicated to publishing ‘high quality answers from fascinating topics and questions on Quora.’ You can find the article here.

]]>702adminhttp://worklogistics.com/?p=14042014-03-10T18:14:01Z2011-12-22T21:37:31ZWe are delighted to announce a product design / development contract with Change.Org. Though Change.Org has their own in-house development team, they used Worklogistics to design, manage and execute a redesign of a secondary web property.

This allowed Change.org to remain focused on their core mission while Worklogistics handled all the details on the secondary project.

The secondary site redesign (which has not been publicly announced – sorry!) included a full redesign of a legacy site and involved migrating 100+ million records from a legacy database to MongoDB. From our first project meeting to handoff of the completed project took just two months.

]]>652adminhttp://worklogistics.com/?p=13602014-03-10T18:14:38Z2011-09-25T20:22:42ZSunRun.
SunRun is one of the top installers of residential solar in the US with over $600 million in funding and currently operates in 9 states with over 15,000 installed systems.
SunRun chose Worklogistics to help implement their sales training program. ]]>We’re delighted to announce our latest client, SunRun.

SunRun is one of the top installers of residential solar in the US operating in 9 states with over 15,000 installed systems. SunRun has secured over $600 million in funding.

SunRun chose Worklogistics to help re-design their sales training program. Here’s what Grayson Morris, Senior Director of Channel Sales had to say about our work:

Steve pulled together a far-reaching redesign of our sales training materials in very little time, the redesign was far more comprehensive than we had anticipated and got our sales training program off to a rapid start…

]]>353adminhttp://worklogistics.com/?p=13822012-12-18T16:09:15Z2011-08-24T21:17:56ZGridium, a startup from the founding team behind TerraPass. Gridium is bringing sophisticated data analysis to commercial energy users.
Here's what Adam Stein, Founder and product head at Gridium had to say about us:

"Worklogistics and their Ukrainian development partners are a pleasure to work with. They were conscientious and efficient during the requirements development phase, quickly gaining a grasp of our problem space and making welcome suggestions for ways to improve our technical approach. We found them to be well-organized, thoughtful, and best of all, fast, delivering high-quality code that met our specifications in less time than other teams we've worked with."

]]>We are pleased to be working with Gridium, a startup from the founding team behind TerraPass. Gridium is bringing sophisticated data analysis to commercial energy users. Find out more about Gridium.

Here’s what Adam Stein, Founder and product head at Gridium had to say about us:

“Worklogistics and their Ukrainian development partners are a pleasure to work with. They were conscientious and efficient during the requirements development phase, quickly gaining a grasp of our problem space and making welcome suggestions for ways to improve our technical approach. We found them to be well-organized, thoughtful, and best of all, fast, delivering high-quality code that met our specifications in less time than other teams we’ve worked with.”

The ideas are intriguing and surprising but the real delight here is how he presents his story, anyone who can make economic research (yawn!) this compelling deserves a prize – highly recommended.

One of the interesting points here is context within which incentives do work. He doesn’t investigate the context for the motivating factors he identifies (autonomy, etc.) but I think there needs to be structure for these factors operate the way he talks about them.

Anyone who works as a consultant (or hired one) knows that autonomy doesn’t always motivate. For example, if your work doesn’t have an appreciative audience, would autonomy still be as strong a motivator? I’m guessing not.

Agile development has an added complication when it needs to sync with marketing. Below is a two-week cycle schedule that brings together development, product and marketing. For this project we had a series of deliverables to keep things in sync, these included:

Product Spec

Iteration Plan – beginning of iteration

Iteration Note – end of iteration

Reviewers’ Guides

Collateral Updates: Tutorial, Tour, Store and PR

]]>1086adminhttp://worklogistics.com/?p=4572012-12-18T16:09:15Z2011-04-09T17:00:25ZI saw this at the Web 2.0 conference last week, charts, widgets, maps galore. The charts look stunning and include nice animations. They even handle an issue I’ve been trying to find a solution for: a Javascript library to display multiple Y-Axis graphs on the same chart.

It renders charts in Flash and Javascript (HTML5) so it’ll play nice with the flood of iOS devices to come and it integrates with a range of server-side technologies.

Prices range from $200 to thousands – so it’s not cheap, but it looks like a great library. See link at right.